Posted on March 27, 2009 by cablegal
I finally decided to dye my silk hankies prior to spinning. Unfortunately I forgot that silk could be dyed with food colouring. Well well, so I bought some silk dye from Panduro. The batteries were completely drained in my camera so there are only after pictures available.
I soaked about 50 g of the hankies in [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2008 by cablegal
Only 600 meters or so but still a walk. Back and forth, back and forth. Between two chairs set up in opposite ends of the room. I needed a skein of about 9 meters in circumference to make self striping yarn out of the yarn I bought yesterday afternoon. The yarn was bought purely for [...]
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